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When North Vietnamese PT boats attacked American ships in the Gulf of Tonkin for the second time last Tuesday, it was instantly clear that our previously planned cover on another subject had to be scrapped. To tell about the new crisis in Asia, any number of individuals were suitable for the cover, beginning with the President of the United States, who made the decision to strike back at North Viet Nam. By Wednesday noon, however, we had settled on the U.S. supreme commander in the Pacific, who bears immediate responsibility for the operations and the massive buildup in his vast...
...third torpedo boat took up the attack. Skillfully, she pulled 5,000 yds. abeam of the destroyer so that evasion would be far more difficult. But this also brought the PT boat under the fire of two pairs of the Maddox's biggest guns. The Maddox fired-a direct hit. The enemy craft stopped dead in the water, helpless and aflame. Later she could not be found and was assumed to have sunk...
...possible in the hope that it was all some sort of misunderstanding on the part of the Communist Viet Minh government at Hanoi. Accordingly, the Pentagon issued a dry statement: The Maddox, "while on routine patrol in international waters," had undergone an "unprovoked attack by three PT-type boats." The White House declined comment. A State Department staffer said that the best possible answer to the attack had been delivered by the Maddox and the U.S. jets. Arriving in New York later for a speech, Dean Rusk said only: "The other side got a sting out of this. If they...
Since these first encounters with the House, Sorensen has relaxed considerably. But he is not a talkative man. At an interview soon after he moved into Leverett, he answered questions easily but maintained a deep reserve. Wearing one of the dark suits he favors and a PT boat tieclip, Sorensen spoke with a trace of a smile, specifying as he went where he could be quoted. It was hard to ask him about Kennedy because the questions seemed so personal. What, for example, were some of the greatest popular misconceptions about Kennedy? "I would rather the answer to that appeared...
...PT boat commander in World War II, John D. Bulkeley rescued General Douglas MacArthur from Corregidor and won a Congressional Medal of Honor for "extraordinary heroism." A rear admiral now and C.O. of the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Bulkeley, 52, is not the sort to take any guff from Fidel Castro. Last week, when Castro accused the base of using suction pumps to draw off on the sly some 114,000 gallons of Cuban water daily, Bulkeley replied: "Hogwash." Guantanamo was using its own water - the mains from Cuban territory were shut tight. "Castro is calling...